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Job 11

Job 11:13 KJV (With Strong’s)

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If thou prepare
kuwn (Hebrew #3559)
properly, to be erect (i.e. stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix, prepare, apply), or figurative (appoint, render sure, proper or prosperous)
KJV usage: certain(-ty), confirm, direct, faithfulness, fashion, fasten, firm, be fitted, be fixed, frame, be meet, ordain, order, perfect, (make) preparation, prepare (self), provide, make provision, (be, make) ready, right, set (aright, fast, forth), be stable, (e-)stablish, stand, tarry, X very deed.
Pronounce: koon
Origin: a primitive root
h thine heart
leb (Hebrew #3820)
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
KJV usage: + care for, comfortably, consent, X considered, courag(-eous), friend(-ly), ((broken-), (hard-), (merry-), (stiff-), (stout-), double) heart((-ed)), X heed, X I, kindly, midst, mind(-ed), X regard((-ed)), X themselves, X unawares, understanding, X well, willingly, wisdom.
Pronounce: labe
Origin: a form of 3824
, and stretch
paras (Hebrew #6566)
to break apart, disperse, etc.
KJV usage: break, chop in pieces, lay open, scatter, spread (abroad, forth, selves, out), stretch (forth, out).
Pronounce: paw-ras'
Origin: a primitive root
out thine hands
kaph (Hebrew #3709)
the hollow hand or palm (so of the paw of an animal, of the sole, and even of the bowl of a dish or sling, the handle of a bolt, the leaves of a palm-tree); figuratively, power
KJV usage: branch, + foot, hand((-ful), -dle, (-led)), hollow, middle, palm, paw, power, sole, spoon.
Pronounce: kaf
Origin: from 3721
toward him;
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1 Sam. 7:3• 3And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto Jehovah with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you. Prepare ye hearts unto Jehovah, and serve Him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines. (1 Sam. 7:3)

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Job 5:8• 8For my part, then, I would turn to God (El),{HR}And to God (Elohim) would I commit my cause, (Job 5:8)
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Job 8:5‑6• 5If thou seekest earnestly unto God,{HR}And makest supplication to the Almighty,
 6If thou [wert] pure and upright,{HR}He would surely now wake up for thee,{HR}And restore the habitation of thy righteousness; (Job 8:5‑6)
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Job 22:21‑22• 21Acquaint thyself, I pray thee, with him, and be at peace;{HR}Thereby shall good come to thee.
 22Receive, I pray thee, law from his mouth,{HR}And lay up his words in thy heart. (Job 22:21‑22)
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1 Sam. 7:3• 3And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto Jehovah with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you. Prepare ye hearts unto Jehovah, and serve Him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines. (1 Sam. 7:3)
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2 Chron. 12:14• 14And he did evil, for he applied not his heart to seek Jehovah. (2 Chron. 12:14)
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2 Chron. 19:3• 3Nevertheless there are good things found in thee; for thou hast put away the Asherahs out of the land, and hast directed thy heart to seek God. (2 Chron. 19:3)
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Psa. 78:8• 8And might not be as their fathers,{HR}A stubborn and rebellious generation,{HR}A generation that set (prepared) not their hearts,{HR}And whose spirit was not steadfast with God (El). (Psa. 78:8)
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Luke 12:47• 47But that bondman who knew his own lord's will, and had not prepared [himself], nor done his will, shall be beaten with many [stripes]. (Luke 12:47)
stretch.
Psa. 68:31• 31Princes shall come from Egypt;{HR}Cush shall haste to stretch out her hands to God. (Psa. 68:31)
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Psa. 88:9• 9Mine eye wasteth because of mine affliction.{HR}I have called on thee, O Jehovah, every day,{HR}I have stretched out my hands toward thee. (Psa. 88:9)
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Psa. 143:6• 6I spread my hands unto thee;{HR}My soul like a weary land [thirsteth] for thee, Selah. (Psa. 143:6)
• The call to repent (vers. 13-15). (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)
• Zophar spoils the dignity of what he had just said, by calling upon Job to repent as an evildoer having a store of ill-gotten wealth in his tents. It is this utter lack of discrimination that stirs Job to anger, and discloses the superficial nature of the friends’ theory. (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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If thou prepare thy heart and stretch out thy hands toward him,

W. Kelly Translation

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If thou direct thy heart,{HR}And spread out thy hands to him;